We all know Synaptics, the company that seems to produce just about every touchpad you can get your hands fingers on. Their touchpads also do a lot of multitouch and gesture stuff, but up until now, their set of gestures, the Synaptics Gesture Suite, was only available on Windows. Luckily, they've ported it over to Linux, and made it available for OEMs building Linux laptops.

Why does every article with Linux in the subject have to devolve into a useless back and forth argument between the Linux and Windows fans? Use what you like and that works for you and be done with it. In particular the Windows zealots seem to be rather active lately with their fud, but both sides are guilty of trolling. Seriously, enough already.